Example sentences of "when [indef pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | When everyone is ready , lift together and put the person 's buttocks up against the base of the pillows . |
| 2 | How can the computer priesthood survive when everyone is a member ? |
| 3 | When everyone is happy with the page , the metal is wheeled over to a large proofing press , which makes a positive impression of very high quality . |
| 4 | When everyone is prepared , you call out one of the words . |
| 5 | One possibility is to take the loss now , in the current balance sheet , when everyone is feeling pain . |
| 6 | When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time . |
| 7 | When everyone is speaking at once in a meeting , keep talking in a calm , reasonable manner . |
| 8 | When everyone is fit , I 'm usually the one sitting on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've had to chop and change on a regular basis this season , but it could hold us in good stead because when everyone is fit again , we 'll know we have people who can operate well in different positions . ’ |
| 10 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
| 11 | How gear is that when everyone is jumping everybody else 's train ? |
| 12 | When everyone is on the water , we still have spare craft to choose from . |
| 13 | When everyone is sailing there are still unused craft ashore , so there 's lots of choice . |
| 14 | The drawing illustrates a situation where heavy hidden costs arise just when everyone is happy that the project is nearing completion . |
| 15 | Or again , in textbook families , where there is invariably a mother , father , boy , and girl ( notwithstanding the fact that now over 30% of families in this country are now single-parent ) , the turns are taken regularly and predictably , with an order and courtesy that I fail to recognise from conversations in my own 4-member household , on those rare occasions when everyone is present . |
| 16 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |
| 17 | Yet now , she thought , when nothing is wrong , there are no misfortunes to speak of , now I am lying here loath to admit the weariness of getting up . |
| 18 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |
| 19 | Souness often spouts on about deals when nothing is happening . |
| 20 | When someone is ill with AIDS they are often in pain . |
| 21 | ‘ We are obviously not there when someone is being tortured or killed . |
| 22 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 23 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
| 24 | When someone is bereaved they have to make considerable readjustment socially speaking . |
| 25 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 26 | A visit when someone is sick or an invitation to coffee is far more appreciated — and remembered — than a call to discuss committee problems . |
| 27 | When someone is regularly and edifyingly prophesying with fruitful results , then it may be he will become known to have the ministry of a prophet . |
| 28 | When someone is rude — a waiter , a civil servant , a politician — she says ‘ Huh , if I was you I 'd sue . ’ |
| 29 | When someone is said to act or react with ‘ full ’ or ‘ sufficient ’ awareness — qualifications which recur in our argument without further explanation , with no doubt irritating frequency — it is implied that he is aware of everything relevant to his choice of means or ends . |
| 30 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |